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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: “Endgame” Has a Powerful Women Problem

by Bitch HQ
May 6, 2019 at 6:00am

“Marvel has to step up.”
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Ride or Fly: “Tuca & Bertie” Offers a New Tail about Women’s Friendship

by Jourdain Searles
May 3, 2019 at 10:22am

Stories about female friendships are often bookended by one or both of the friends experiencing a big life change and moving on.
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Lisa Hanawalt on Animating Your Own Escape

by Evette Dionne
May 3, 2019 at 9:00am

People are finally starting to pay attention to the terrible ways women are treated, but every animation studio and production company needs to be less oblivious.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Journalism’s Gig Economy Is Bad for Everyone

by Bitch HQ
May 3, 2019 at 6:00am

“Journalism’s dependence on part-time freelancers has been bad for the industry—not to mention writers.”
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Women Do the Majority of the Family Care. Can We Get Some Paid Leave?

by Rebecca Koon
May 2, 2019 at 11:33am

More than two-thirds of the American public agrees that paid family leave should be available to all workers, even if they disagree about how it should be paid for.

Backtalk: Student Moans

by Amy Lam
May 2, 2019 at 7:00am

This week, Dahlia and Amy get upset about student loans. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign recently unveiled a student loan forgiveness plan as part of her platform, finally seriously centering the student debt crisis as something the government should help alleviate. How we talk about the student loan crisis is important because it can shift the focus from student...
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Esmé Wang Finds Meaning in “The Collected Schizophrenias”

by Laura Dorwart
May 2, 2019 at 7:00am

There are no easy solutions to the problems Esmé Weijun Wang poses, but she has provided us with the truth of her own story.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Another Migrant Child Dies in U.S. Custody

by Bitch HQ
May 2, 2019 at 6:00am

The unidentified teenage boy is the third migrant child to die in government custody in the last six months.
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“Made in Heaven” Injects Feminism into India’s Big Wedding Industry

by Nandini Balial
May 1, 2019 at 12:34pm

Though the show is purportedly about the lives of the wedding planners, its goal is in fact to not just challenge the patriarchy but to crush it under a designer heel.
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No More Pencils, No More Books: What’s Next after the Year of the Teachers’ Strike?

by Kim Kelly
May 1, 2019 at 9:34am

2019, while still young, has shown that it’s in the running to be yet another extraordinarily important one for America’s unions, with teachers still at the forefront.

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